437, Lot: 293. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 13.79 g, 12h). Dated year 31 of the Actian Era and Cos. XIII (1 BC/AD 1). Laureate head right / ETOVΣ ΑΛ (Actian era date) NIKHΣ, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm frond; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; in right field, monogram (=ΥΠΑTOY) and IΓ (consular date) above monogram (=ANTIOXIEΩN?). Prieur 56 (this coin); McAlee 186; RPC I 4157; DCA 400. VF, toned with some iridescence, minor roughness.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Gala Benefit Auction for the 135th Anniversary of the ANS (Stack’s, 17 November 1993), lot 58 (donated by Dr. George M. Golden).